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Hello there I have a HP pavilion DV 6 6016TX, I'd like to upgrade to a dual band one , but can't find a suitable WiFi card. Please could anyone suggest a suitable WiFi card and where I can find such a card. Many thanks in advance.

 

Arjun

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@Magicknife 

 

Your machine was built around 2011. Due to the whitelist you can't use newer wifi cards/adapters. The list on page 67 of the manual does NOT have any card which supports 802.11ac.  You can use USB options

 

           https://www.pcgamer.com/au/best-usb-wi-fi-adapter/

 

In March 2020 ago, for testing, I bought the following wifi card for my 11 years old machine

 

           https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Networking/Adapters/60514-7265.NGWWB.W

 

Unfortunately my machine uses different format, not M.2, physically won't fit therefore I went to the shop and swap to the following one (I did not have to pay more, they are same price):

 

            https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Networking/Adapters/67965-USB-AC53-NANO

 

And it works perfectly, get same result (download speed) with the 1G wired on same machine.

 

Regards.

BH
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